Is Summer Bay High School real?

The real-life location is in fact not a school, but Macquarie Hospital—a specialist mental health residential facility in the NW Sydney suburb of North Ryde, around a 15 minute drive from the old studios in Epping.

What happened to Summer Bay High?

The school was rebuilt in 1996 following a major earthquake that occurred in Summer Bay that year. In 2011, a storm occurred and did a great deal of damage, rendering the building unsafe. The school was rebuilt at the start of the 2012 school year.

Is Mangrove River a real place?

Mangrove River is a neighbouring suburb to Summer Bay, often mentioned in the earlier years of the programme. Its first mention came in 1989 when Tom Fletcher and Alf Stewart were hospitalised there after being lost at sea.

Is Summer Bay a real place in Australia?

Is Summer Bay a real place? Summer bay is the shows’ fictional name for Palm Beach, one of the most affluent suburbs in Sydney.

Where is Summer Bay Home and Away filmed?

Palm Beach
Where is Summer Bay? The Summer Bay outdoor filming location is actually Palm Beach, in Sydney’s Northern Beaches, only 41 kilometres north of Sydney’s CBD.

Where is the Home and Away Diner?

The Pier Diner has featured in Home and Away for much of the run of the programme. The current venue is set in Palm Beach. The real venue that you see from the outside in the show is currently called The Boathouse.

Where is Summer Bay House?

Summer Bay is the fictional coastal town featured in the Australian soap opera, Home and Away….

Is the diner in Home and Away real?

The Summer Bay Diner and Alf’s bait shop is a real location in Sydney – The Boathouse Palm Beach. It is a popular place to have lunch, host events and get married due to its beautiful backdrop.

Can you visit the Home and Away set?

There are currently no public access to, or tours of, the Redfern studios but the outdoor sets (Palm Beach) are accessible to the public. The outdoor sets include all the beach areas of Summer Bay seen in Home and Away, the outsides of some of the houses, the exterior of the Surf Club and Alf’s Bait Shop.

Where is Summer Bay in home and away?

Summer Bay is a fictional town featured in Home and Away. The bay is North to the New South Wales major city Sydney and is displayed to be quite remote. The town was founded in 1852 and since then has experience many disasters, revamps and tragedies.

What is the Summer Bay High School like?

Summer Bay High School is the main high school in Summer Bay. Built in the 1960s it has been the main school for the inhabitants of the town. Over the years the school has had several refurbishments and has also had many teachers pass through.

Where is home and Away filmed in Sydney?

A visit to Summer Bay and the various Home and Away locations is a great day out when you are in Sydney. Home and Away is set in the fictional town of Summer Bay, New South Wales. Since its development in 1988. much of the exterior shots have been captured in Palm Beach on Sydney’s Northern Beaches.

What happened to Don’s house in Summer Bay?

In 1992, Don sold the house to Julia Bowman and her daughter Meg and moved to a new residence; his old house not being seen again after Julia Bowman left town a few months later following Meg’s death from leukaemia. In 1995, the second house was destroyed by fire when a major bush fire swept through Summer Bay.